Resource Attitude

The mind stays open to what it has not yet met. New places, people and ideas are welcomed before any proof arrives, and a good argument can still change a view. In a community they bring the unfamiliar home and keep beliefs from hardening.

Possibilities are read for their flaws and kept at arm's length until they prove themselves. Irony replaces enthusiasm, and neither the crowd nor the appetites set the terms. That distance is a community's check on its own hopes.

What already exists is watched for danger on behalf of the people close by. Vigilance is practical, speech is frank and care is open-handed, which is how a household stays whole and its material life keeps from breaking.

The near world is claimed, arranged and enjoyed as one's own. From inside that settled order the mood remains calm and steady, and little outside it needs attention. Wherever they live, the place becomes livable and stays that way.